Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
February 6, 1976
Place of Birth:
Leipzig, Germany
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Maria Simon
Biography
Maria Simon (born February 6, 1976) is a German actress.
Simon's German father originally hailed from Leipzig and studied mathematics in Leningrad. There he met Simon's Russian-Jewish mother, Olga, who studied electronics and originally hailed from Kazakhstan. The couple married while studying.
Maria Simon is the younger sister of actress Susanna Simon, who was born on 23 July 1968, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Maria was born and brought up in the former East Germany, but moved to New York City in 1990 to live with her father, a computer expert with the United Nations, and her sister Dalena Simon. She also has a sister named Alyssa. Simon has four children, the first from a former relationship with the actor Devid Striesow, and three with her ex-husband, the actor Bernd Michael Lade.
After finishing school she moved back to the newly reunited Germany to study acting at the Academy of Performing Arts Ernst Busch in Berlin where she received her diploma in 1999.
She won the award for Best Actress for her role in the film Zornige Küsse at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival in 2000. Simon was nominated as the best supporting actress in the 2003 German Film Awards, and was named European Shooting Star (i.e., best newcomer) at the 2004 Berlinale. In the same year she played Polly in Bertolt Brechts Dreigroschenoper at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. Her TV movie Kleine Schwester was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Awards in 2005.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Alle Jahre wieder | Kathrin |
| 2023 | Wolfsjagd | Sara Jahnke |
| 2023 | Der Zeuge | Reporterin |
| 2021 | Zwerg Nase | Hanne |
| 2019 | A Hidden Life | Resie |
| 2019 | Curling für Eisenstadt | Petra Glewitz |
| 2018 | Break-Out to the Unknown | Sarah Schneider |
| 2017 | Ich gehöre ihm | Anna |
| 2017 | Im Tunnel | Maren Adam |
| 2015 | Silvia S.: Blinde Wut | Silvia Schubert |
| 2015 | Das Geständnis | KGB |
| 2014 | Der Geruch von Erde | Ellen Bischoff |
| 2013 | Death on the Baltic | Evelyn Kossack |
| 2012 | Die Tote im Moorwald | Josefine Mehdorn |
| 2012 | Herzversagen | Ellen Roth |
| 2011 | Engel der Gerechtigkeit | Sonja Danner |
| 2010 | Kongo | Oberleutnant Nicole Ziegler |
| 2010 | Es war einer von uns | Johanna Schröder |
| 2010 | Civil Courage | Monika Keller |
| 2010 | Masserberg | Tinka Sanchez |
| 2010 | Blessed Events | Susa |
| 2009 | The Countess | Helena |
| 2009 | Tod in der Eifel | Lona Schanz |
| 2009 | Romeo und Jutta | Dr.Annette Meerkatz |
| 2007 | Fürchte dich nicht | Katrin Bischof |
| 2006 | Nichts als Gespenster | Ellen |
| 2006 | Not All Were Murderers | Lona Furkert |
| 2006 | Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten | Leo Herzog |
| 2004 | Carola Stern - Doppelleben | Erika Assmus aka Carola Stern |
| 2003 | Good Bye, Lenin! | Ariane |
| 2003 | Distant Lights | Sonja |
| 2003 | Luther | Hanna |
| 2003 | Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet | Andrea Bär |
| 2003 | Fast perfekt verlobt | Nika Kreschninski |
| 2002 | Erste Ehe | |
| 2002 | Against All Evidence | Stefanie |
| 2001 | Verbotene Küsse | Andrea |
| 2001 | Jonathan's Liebe | Nina Buchwald |
| 2001 | Passing Summer | Johanna |
| 2000 | Mord im Swingerclub | Susanna Bach |
| 2000 | Amerika | Mädchen mit Kind |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Everyone is f*cking crazy | Jella |
| 2023 | Gestern waren wir noch Kinder | Anna Klettmann |
| 2019 | Erzgebirgskrimi | Tanja Rossner |
| 2017 | Über Land | Frieda Mirko |
| 2014 | Murder by the Lake | Verena Garchinger |
| 2013 | Stadt, Rad, Hund | Self |
| 2013 | Zärtlichkeiten im Bus | Self |
| 2012 | Letzte Spur Berlin | Swantje Holthusen |
| 2011 | Frühling | Sonja Feichtmayr |
| 2008 | Der Bergdoktor | Ina Lechner |
| 2006 | Unter anderen Umständen | Rike Kramer |
| 2006 | Der Kriminalist | Bettina Winkler |
| 2003 | K3 – Kripo Hamburg | Kathrin Leutgeb |
| 2003 | ZIBB | Self |
| 2000 | Einsatz in Hamburg | Tanja Schulz |
| 1999 | Volle Kanne | Self |
| 1998 | HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin | Biene Virchow |
| 1997 | Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen | Dorkas Schlüter |
| 1996 | Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police | Laura Friedrich |
| 1995 | Die Harald Schmidt Show | Self |
| 1995 | Balko | Marischka Frankovka |
| 1995 | Für alle Fälle Stefanie | Helena Klamerski |
| 1994 | Im Namen des Gesetzes | Lydia Stein |
| 1994 | Ein starkes Team | Stefanie Lentz |
| 1992 | Riverboat | Self |
| 1991 | DAS! | Self |
| 1984 | Goldene Kamera Verleihung | Self |
| 1979 | NDR Talk Show | Self |
| 1978 | SOKO München | Tamara Lanz |
| 1977 | Der Alte | Anke Flemming |
| 1977 | Der Alte | Katrin Schwab |
| 1977 | Der Alte | Anna Sophie Belitz |
| 1971 | Polizeiruf 110 | KHK Olga Lenski |
| 1971 | Polizeiruf 110 | Hauptkommissarin Olga Lenski |
| 1971 | Polizeiruf 110 | Kriminalhauptkommissarin Olga Lenski |
| 1971 | Polizeiruf 110 | Kriminalkommissarin Olga Lenski |
| 1971 | Polizeiruf 110 | Olga Lenski |
| 1970 | Scene of the Crime | Sylvia Keller |
| 1970 | Scene of the Crime | Lisa Mattern |
| 1970 | Scene of the Crime | |
| 1970 | Scene of the Crime | Sabine Gerber |
| 1970 | Scene of the Crime | Hannah Siems |
| 1951 | Deutscher Filmpreis | Self |